Category Archive for : ‘UTAH’

February 17, 2021
Larry D. Curtis
KUTV

SALT LAKE COUNTY (KUTV) — A Salt Lake County man was arrested on suspicion of 15 sex crimes involving children after a report was filed to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Derek Voy Taylor was arrested and interviewed then admitted to police he downloaded numerous child pornography photos and videos found on his phone and computer and admitted to touching two children sexually and taking pornographic images of one. Taylor was in a position of trust over both children, ages 8 and 6 when

December 29, 2020
McKenzie Stauffer
KUTV

(KUTV) — A former obstetrician-gynecologist was sentenced in 2019 to more than 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography.
Nathan Ward allegedly livestreamed the sexual abuse of a victim, who was between the ages of 12 and 14, with another sex offender, Robert Edwin Francis, who was also convicted in federal court, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Utah.
Ward was convicted for the sexual abuse of the same victim in state court. A judge sentenced him to 262 months in prison and a

May 22, 2020
Pat Reavy
Deseret

SALT LAKE CITY — A Sandy man already charged in one case with sexually abusing a minor now faces new charges after prosecutors say his lewd behavior continued in another city.
Austin Eric Bashford, 20, was charged Thursday in Cache County’s 1st District Court with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony; dealing in harmful materials to a minor and 10 counts of enticing a minor, third-degree felonies.
Bashford met a 16-year-old girl on the website Omingle, according to the new charging documents.
“There were several

KUTV/Larry D. Curtis

A Utah man accused of child sexual abuse is also facing 20 counts of child sexual exploitationof a minor after police discovered pre-pubescent pornographic images after serving a search warrantat his Heber City home. Police say there are at least five victims of Johnson.

Bryce Johnson, who owns a bounce house company, was previously charged with three felony countsalleging he abused two boys and he is accused of touching another boy inappropriately at anice-skating rink. Heber City Police Department said Monday it is halfway through its investigationof Johnson and

Federal agents arrested 12 sexual predators in the Salt Lake City area last Tuesday, including a Guatemalan national who sexually abused five young female victims ranging in age from three to nine.  The aliens taken into custody include legal permanent residents whose past criminal records make them subject to deportation from the United States.  Those arrested are nationals of Mexico, the Congo, Germany, Sudan, Croatia, Samoa and Guatemala.  The arrests are part of Operation Predator.

(Salt Lake City, Utah)

Robin Culley O’Neill, a 53 year old man from Tooele, Utah, was convicted today on charges of using a computer connected to the Internet to attempt to entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual conduct and crossing a state line to have sex with a person under 12 years of age.  The jury found Nelson guilty on two counts (1) using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, and (2) crossing a state line with the intent to engage